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Recent git features

jasonrudolph.com

29 pointspieter2 comments

My personal favorite is:

    git checkout --track origin/master

to create a local branch 'master' that tracks the branch 'master' on 'origin', and checks it out.

That is a nice feature. Up 'til now I've been using git_remote_branch (http://github.com/webmat/git_remote_branch/tree/master).